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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What has Nabokov always had difficulty doing?
(a) Speaking in public.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Eating.
(d) Writing.

2. When does Nabokov eventually discover a new species?
(a) In Germany visiting his family.
(b) As a small boy in Russia.
(c) At Cambridge.
(d) Not until he is an old man, living in exile in the United States.

3. Why does Nabokov's mother often wander the estate's forest?
(a) She becomes lost easily.
(b) She loves the estate property.
(c) To search for mushrooms.
(d) It helps clear her mind.

4. What game does the whole family often play on the estate?
(a) Rounders.
(b) Badmitton.
(c) Lawn tennis.
(d) Lawn bowling.

5. Why is he detained briefly in 1918, by a Bolshevik soldier?
(a) He is trying to escape the country.
(b) He is accused him of signaling British warships with his net.
(c) He is evading the draft.
(d) He has run away from the Red Army.

Short Answer Questions

1. When do they arrive in Paris?

2. Mademoiselle threatens several times to leave. Why does she end up staying?

3. In any of the memories he has from before his obsession began, Nabokov cannot recall the presence of butterflies. What can he recall afterward?

4. In exile in America, when a ranger or marshal spots him traipsing into the backwoods, net in hand, what is he asked?

5. Soon, the string of nurses transforms into what?

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